The refresher training was to teach the 380 teachers the difference between the outlawed outcome based education (OBE), which the current government directed for commencement this school year and SBC.

Fifty-one teachers from Lower Mendi Local Level Government (LLG) met in Mendi, the Southern Highlands provincial capital, while 26 from Imbonggu and 23 from Ialibu basin LLGs met at Walume government station.

On August 16, 2016, Forest Minister Douglas Tomuriesa told Parliament that more than 800,000 trees would be planted PNG-wide by 2050 as part of a long-overdue re-afforestation programme.

Tomuriesa said that Prime Minister Peter O’Neill had made an announcement in Paris, France during the Conference of Parties (COP) 21 that the trees would be planted as part of PNG’s effort to mitigating the effects of climate changes.

Currently, the only successful egg farmer on small to medium business basis in the SHP, Resi Kupa said instead, people should use their resources well to grow more food crops and start livestock projects to earn money.

Kupa told of his egg layer project, which he started in January 2013 in a bush material building with three boxes containing 156 layers.

Last week (April 13) heavy flooding in Lai River over-turned the rope foot bridge causing partial damage and making it difficult for people with heavy loads to cross and go into Mendi town and continue elsewhere.

The foot bridge provides serves the Milwerip Primary School, five different Christian denomination churches buildings and a health centre/aid post.

President of Ialibu Basin Local Level Government (LLG) in Southern Highlands, Robert Dopo has said that schools and communities receiving financial and other help from Awesa should appreciate and accept what they get.

And Dopo has urged the management of schools and communities in Imbonggu district to be wary of failed and aspiring politicians who knowingly go around spreading lies to discredit genuine efforts by the national government to assist learning institutions.